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Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series

A weekly seminar sponsored by the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, with talks (mostly) by visiting speakers on the subject of Evolutionary Morphology as defined very broadly. Speakers (and audience members) drawn from many areas, including evolutionary biology, anatomy, biomechanics, ecology, paleontology, molecular biology, systematics, conservation biology, and history/philosophy of sciences. Meets in Hinds 176, 5734 S. Ellis, Thursdays at 7:30.

Winter Quarter 2010

Henry Hinds Laboratory, University of Chicago
5734 S. Ellis, Room 176
Thursdays at 7:30 pm

January 14 Nicolai Konow
Brown University
Functional innovations and disparity in comparative biology
January 21 John Wiens
Stony Brook University
Making and using the Tree of Life
January 28 Stephanie Pierce
University of Cambridge
Locomotion in the earliest tetrapods: testing models of terrestriality
February 4 Michael Alfaro
University of California Los Angeles
Comparative approaches to studying diversification and macroevolution on the tree of life.
February 11 Lou Zachos
Smithsonian Institute
Modeling echinoid skeletal growth - testing hypotheses of development and evolution
February 18 David Jablonski and Kevin Boyce
University of Chicago
The tropics as an evolutionary engine on land and sea
February 25 Chris Organ
Harvard University
Below the Surface: Discovering Biology with Trees and Fossils
March 4 Rita Mehta
University of California-Davis
Cranial evolution in anguilliform fishes: from functional innovation to species diversification.

Revised: February 5, 2010